Conclusion of A Brave Man

God did not let E'noch live a long time among those bad people. E'noch lived to be only 365 years old. Why do we say "0nly 365 years?  Because men in those days were much stronger than now and lived much longer. Why, E'noch's son Me-thu'se-lah  lived to be 969 years old! 

Well, after E'noch died, the people just got worse and worse.  The Bible says that 'everything they thought about was bad all the time, and that 'the earth became filled with violence.'

Do you know one of the reasons why there was so much trouble on the earth in those days?  It is because Satan had a new way of getting the people to do bad things .  We will learn about this next.

Genesis 5:21-24, 25, 27;  6:5; Hebrews 11:5; Jude 14, 15.

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A Brave Man

AS THE number of people began to increase on earth, most of them did bad things like Cain.  But one man was different. He is the man named E'noch. E'noch was a brave man. The people all around him were doing very bad things, but E'noch still kept on serving God.

Do you know why those people did so many bad things? Well, think, Who caused Adam and Eve to disobey God and to eat the fruit that God said they should not eat?  Yes, it was a bad angel. The Bible calls him Satan. And he is trying to get everyone to be bad.

One day Jehovah God had E'noch tell the people something they did not want to hear. It was this:  'God is someday going to destroy all the bad people.'  The people were probably very angry to hear this. They may even have tried to kill E'noch. So E'noch needed to be very brave to tell the people about what God was going to do.

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Conclusion of A Good Son, and a Bad One

So God tells Cain that he should change his ways. But Cain does not listen. He is very angry because God liked Abel better. So Cain says to Abel, 'let us go over into the field.'  There, when they were all alone, Cain hits his brother Abel. He hits him so hard that he kills him. Wasn't that a terrible thing for Cain to do?

Even though Abel died, God still remembers him. Abel was good, and Jehovah never forgets a person like that.  So one day Jehovah God will bring Abel back to life. At that time Abel will never have to die. He will be able to live here on earth forever. Won't it be fine to get to know persons like Abel? 

But God is not pleased with persons like Cain. So after Cain killed his brother, God punished him by sending far away from the rest of his family. When Cain went away to live in another part of the earth, he toll with him one of his sisters, and she became his wife. 

In time Cain and his wife began to have children. Other sons and daughters of Adam and Eve got married, and they also had children.  Soon there were many people on the earth.  Let's learn about some of them.

Genesis 4:2-26; 1 John 3:11, 12; John 11:25.

Next time: A Brave Man

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A Good Son, and a Bad One

LOOK at Cain and Abel now. They have both grown up. Cain has become a farmer. He grows grains and fruits and vegetables.

Abel has become a keeper of sheep. He likes to take care of lambs.  They grow up into big sheep, and so Abel soon has a whole flock of sheep to watch over.

One day Cain and Abel brought a gift to God.  Cain brings some fruit he has grown. and Abel brings  the very best sheep he has.  Jehovah is pleased with Abel and his gift. But he is not pleased with Cain and his gift. Do you  know why?

It is not just that Abel's gift is better than Cain's. It is better because Abel is a good  man. He loves Jehovah and his brother. But Cain is bad; he does not love his brother. 

Next time: Conclusion of A Good Son and a  Bad One

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Conclusion of A Hard Life Begins

God wants people to live forever in happiness, and  He promises that someday they will. Not only will the whole earth be beautiful, but all the people will be healthy.  And everyone on earth will be a good friend with everyone else and with God.

 But Eve was no longer a friend of God.  So when she gave birth to her children, it was not easy for her.  She had pain. Being disobedient to Jehovah certainly brought her a lot of sorrow, don't you agree?

Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters.  When their son was born, they named him Cain.  They named their second son Abel.  What happened to them?  Do you know? 

Genesis 3:16; 4:1, 2; Revelation 21:3, 4. 

Next time: A Good Son, and a Bad One

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A Hard Life Begins

OUTSIDE the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had many troubles. They had to work harder for their food. Instead of  beautiful fruit trees, they saw lots of thorns and thistles grow around them.  This is what happened when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and stopped being his friends.


But worse then that, Adam and Eve started to die. Remember God warned them that they would die if they ate the fruit from a certain tree. Well, the very next da6 that they ate they began to die. How foolish they were not to listen to God!

The children of Adam and Eve were all born after God put their parents out of the garden of Eden. This means that the children would also have to grow old and die. 

 If only Adam and Eve had  obeyed Jehovah, life would have been happy for them and their children.  They could all have lived forever in happiness on earth. No one would have had to grow old, get sick and die. 

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Conclusion of Why They Lost Their Home

It wasn't Ada, So it had to be one of the  persons that Jehovah had made long before he had made the earth. Those persons are angels, and we cannot see them.  This one angel had become very proud. He began thinking that he should  be a  ruler like God.  And he wanted people to obey him instead of obeying Jehovah. He was the angel that made the snake talk. 

This angel was able to fool Eve.  When he told her she would become like God if she ate the fruit, she believed it. So she ate, and Adam did too. Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and that is why they lost their beautiful garden home.

But someday God will see to it that the whole earth is made pretty as the garden of Eden. Later we will learn how you may share in making it this way.  But now, lets find out what happened to Adam and Eve.
Genesis 2:16, 17, 3:1-13, 24;  Revelation 12:9. 

Next time:  A Hard Life Begins

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Why They Lost Their Home

SEE what's happening now. Adam and Eve are being put out of the beautiful garden of Eden. Do you know why?

It is because they did something very bad. And so Jehovah is punishing them. Do you know the bad thing Adam and Eve did?

They did something God told them not to do. God told them they could eat food from the trees of the garden. But from one tree God said not to eat, or else they would die. He kept that tree as his own. And we know 9it is wrong to take something that belongs to someone else, don't we!  Well, what happened? 

One day when Eve was alone in the garden, a snake spoke to her. Think of that!  It told Eve to eat fruit from the tree from which God told them not to eat. Now,, when Jehovah made snakes he did not make them so they could talk. So this only mean that someone else was making the snake speak, Who was that?

Next time: Conclusion of Why They Lost Their Home

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Conclusion of the First Man and Woman

The animals all had mates.There were papa elephants and mama elephants, and there were papa lions and mama lions. But Adam had no one to be his mate. So Jehovah made Adam to fall into a deep sleep, and he took a rib bone from his side. Using this rib, Jehovah made a woman for Adam, and she became his wife. 

How happy Adam was now!  And think how happy Eve must have been to be put in such a beautiful garden to live!  Now they could have children and live together in happiness.

Jehovah wanted Adam and Eve to live forever. He wanted them to make the whole earth as pretty as the garden of Eden. How happy Adam and Eve must have been when they thought about doing this! Would  you have liked to share in making the earth a pretty garden?  But the happiness of Adam and Eve did not last.  Let's find out why. 


Psalm 83:18; Genesis 1:26-31; 2:7-25.

Next time: Why They Lost Their Home

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The First Man and Woman

WHAT is different in this picture?  Yes, it is the people in it. They are the first man and woman. Who made them? It was God. Do you know his name? It is Jehovah. And the man and woman came to be called Adam and Eve.

This is how Jehovah God made Adam. He took some dust from the ground and with it he formed a perfect body, a man's body.  The he blew into the man's nose, and Adam came to life. 

Jehovah God had a job for Adam. He told Adam to name all the different kinds of animals. Adam may have watched the animals for some time so he could  pick out the best names for them all.  While Adam was naming the animals he began to see something. Do you know what that was? 

Note: I did not write this book. Does it sound like a children's book to you? It does to me, but oh well.  Sometimes the people that doesn't know how it came about will learn this way. Sometimes that is what it takes. Thank you for your patience in this. I just do blogs so people will see the truth/true knowledge of what the other pastors, priests etc., are not teaching. This is all in the Bible.

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